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Comments: 1 +- Folding@Home 2.0: Online protein folding game-> on Thursday May 08 2008, @03:44PM a boy named woo
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a boy named woo writes "Tired of justifying your gaming addiction? Now you can really help accomplish something while you play... thanks to Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher David Baker at the University of Washington.
From the article:
"Foldit" takes players through a series of practice levels designed to teach the basics of protein folding, before turning them loose on real proteins from nature. "Our main goal was to make sure that anyone could do it, even if they didn't know what biochemistry or protein folding was," says Popovi. At the moment, the game only uses proteins whose three-dimensional structures have been solved by researchers. But, says Popovi, "soon we'll be introducing puzzles for which we don't know the solution."
Now if only they start paying for your time playing, then we can all sit on our collective fat butts and "work"."
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Another great idea, like the credits system (believe it or not most people do it for the credits).
Congratulations are in order to the Rosetta team, assuming this game becomes highly addictive and capable of porting into java "run anywhere" environments.
When gamers will be able to design all-new proteins.
Very interesting indeed, and hopefully they give credit (and possibly a hefty reward) for the discovery, giving a greater motive to play.